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    Newswise: FSU chemist awarded Department of Energy grant to study platinum group elements
    Release date: 31-Oct-2024 5:35 PM EDT
    FSU chemist awarded Department of Energy grant to study platinum group elements
    Florida State University

    A Florida State University chemist will use a three-year, $1.185 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study platinum group elements, or PGEs, at the molecular level in order to identify more affordable and abundant alternatives.

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    Newswise: FSU researcher available to comment on climate impact of shipping emissions
    Release date: 31-Oct-2024 5:30 PM EDT
    FSU researcher available to comment on climate impact of shipping emissions
    Florida State University

    By: Kayla Cardenas | Published: October 31, 2024 | 12:25 pm | SHARE: As international shipping continues to power global trade, its environmental impact is becoming an increasingly urgent topic in climate science research.At Florida State University, Assistant Professor of Meteorology Michael Diamond is at the forefront of research on the environmental impact of shipping.

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    Release date: 31-Oct-2024 5:15 PM EDT
    MSU expert: What to know about Halloween candy safety
    Michigan State University

    Halloween is a favorite holiday for many adults and especially young children. With traditions ranging from attending fun costume parties to transforming spaces with spooky decorations to trick-or-treating, there’s ample opportunity for kids to find themselves with heaps of candy. So, what should parents know about the health effects of all this candy? Christine Venema is a food safety educator with MSU Extension. Here, she explains what parents should know when it comes to the health concerns around candy and the shelf life of candy.

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    Newswise: Frontier Users’ Exascale Climate Emulator Nominated for Gordon Bell Climate Prize
    Release date: 31-Oct-2024 5:05 PM EDT
    Frontier Users’ Exascale Climate Emulator Nominated for Gordon Bell Climate Prize
    Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility

    A multi-institutional team of researchers led by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or KAUST, Saudi Arabia, has been nominated for the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2024 Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling. The team developed an exascale climate emulator with radically enhanced resolution but without the computational expense and data storage requirements of state-of-the-art climate models.

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    Release date: 31-Oct-2024 5:05 PM EDT
    KeraVet® Bio, Inc., announces completion of a clinical study showing pet parents overwhelmingly prefer KeraVet Gel to a cone
    Ablacon, Inc.

    KeraVet Bio, Inc., announced today that it has completed a controlled clinical study that shows that pet parents overwhelmingly prefer using KeraVet Gel to an Elizabethan collar (otherwise known as the cone or E-collar). This study is a follow-up to the randomized controlled clinical study KeraVet Bio completed that showed that the KeraVet Gel product significantly reduced licking behavior and improved healing outcomes (publication in review at the American Journal of Veterinary Research).

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    Release date: 31-Oct-2024 5:05 PM EDT
    Ask the expert: Why is immigration reform so contentious?
    Michigan State University

    The issue of immigration reform is one that both Republicans and Democrats have sought to address for years with little success. And many voters are losing their patience with the lack of progress — whether resulting from ineffective bills passed, bills that have failed to pass, or executive orders from presidents. Veronica Tobar Thronson is a clinical professor of law who directs the Immigration Law Clinic at the Michigan State University College of Law. Here, she provides an overview of why there has been a lack of immigration reform and how it has become a leading political issue.

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    Newswise: Attorney General Griffin Provides $1 Million Grant to Build Cybersecurity Center at UA Little Rock
    Release date: 31-Oct-2024 4:15 PM EDT
    Attorney General Griffin Provides $1 Million Grant to Build Cybersecurity Center at UA Little Rock
    University of Arkansas at Little Rock

    Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin has announced a $1 million grant to establish a cybersecurity research and education center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. UA Little Rock, a recognized leader in cybersecurity education, will use the funding from the Office of the Attorney General to establish the Cyberspace Operations Research and Education (CORE) Center, which will enhance research opportunities and support the development of Arkansas’s future cybersecurity workforce.

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    Release date: 31-Oct-2024 3:55 PM EDT
    Texas Tech Researcher Named Station Science Leader for Antarctica Project
    Texas Tech University

    Biologist Natasja van Gestel will oversee and coordinate scientific work on behalf of the National Science Foundation.

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    Release date: 31-Oct-2024 3:45 PM EDT
    In Memoriam: Diane Edmund Griffin, MD, PhD, 1940–2024
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

    Diane Griffin, MD, PhD, a pioneering infectious-disease virologist, scientific leader, and Johns Hopkins professor, died Monday. She was 84.

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    Release date: 31-Oct-2024 3:20 PM EDT
    Rutgers Launches University Consortium on Employee Share Ownership to Convene Institutions Studying Broad Based Ownership of Business
    Rutgers - New Brunswick School of Management and Labor Relations

    The Rutgers University Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing announces the launch of the first academic network to foster collaboration among university-based initiatives that advance the study and practice of employee share ownership.

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    Newswise: The ‘eyes’ have it: Reasons you should avoid color-changing eye drops
    Release date: 31-Oct-2024 3:15 PM EDT
    The ‘eyes’ have it: Reasons you should avoid color-changing eye drops
    UT Southwestern Medical Center

    Fads tend to change in the blink of an eye. This year, some people are being drawn to an eye-catching social media trend of using eye drops that promise to lighten or darken your eye color. The reality is that over-the-counter eye drops cannot change your eye color.

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    Release date: 31-Oct-2024 3:05 PM EDT
    Apixaban vs Aspirin in Patients with Cancer and Cryptogenic Stroke
    Ochsner Health

    The ARCADIA study was a multicenter, double-blind, randomized clinical trial conducted between 2017 and 2020.

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    Newswise: Scientists prepare for the most ambitious sky survey yet, anticipating new insight on dark matter and dark energy
    Release date: 31-Oct-2024 3:00 PM EDT
    Scientists prepare for the most ambitious sky survey yet, anticipating new insight on dark matter and dark energy
    Argonne National Laboratory

    Argonne scientists are contributing to the success of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time through advanced simulation, analysis and collaborative partnership.

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    Release date: 31-Oct-2024 2:40 PM EDT
    Smith Enterprise Risk Consortium Rolls Out New Mortgage Risk Indexes
    University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

    A UMD-Smith effort led by Clifford Rossi has produced a pair of mortgage credit risk indexes to guide lenders, servicers, credit investors, regulators and other market participants.

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    Release date: 31-Oct-2024 2:15 PM EDT
    First Pediatric Guideline on Opioid Prescribing in Primary Care Focuses on Preventing Overdose
    Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

    With its emphasis on opioid overdose prevention, the first guideline for primary care providers from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) on prescribing opioids for acute pain in children and adolescents extends beyond responsible pain management.

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    Release date: 31-Oct-2024 2:05 PM EDT
    Moffitt Study Links Methylmalonic Acid to Weakening of Immune Cells in Lung Cancer
    Moffitt Cancer Center

    A new study has found a surprising link between high levels of methylmalonic acid and the weakening of CD8+ T cells, shedding light on potential pathways through which aging may promote lung cancer progression. Moffitt Cancer Center researchers have found new insights into how metabolic changes associated with aging can impact immune responses against tumors.

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    Newswise: Researchers Solve Medical Mystery of Neurological Symptoms in Kids
    30-Oct-2024 4:35 PM EDT
    Researchers Solve Medical Mystery of Neurological Symptoms in Kids
    Washington University in St. Louis

    Researchers at WashU Medicine collaborated with an international team of doctors and scientists to identify the cause of a rare disorder involving intellectual disability and brain malformations. The team found a link between the child’s neurological symptoms and a genetic change that affects how proteins are properly folded within cells, providing the parents with a molecular diagnosis and identifying an entirely new type of genetic disorder. The findings are published in Science.

    Newswise: A newly developed algorithm shows how a gene is expressed at microscopic resolution
    Release date: 31-Oct-2024 1:50 PM EDT
    A newly developed algorithm shows how a gene is expressed at microscopic resolution
    Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

    A new method developed by University of Michigan researchers creates images that are worth many gigabytes of data, which could revolutionize the way biologists study gene expression.

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    Release date: 31-Oct-2024 1:35 PM EDT
    AI tools show biases in ranking job applicants’ names according to perceived race and gender
    University of Washington

    University of Washington researchers found significant racial, gender and intersectional bias in how three state-of-the-art large language models ranked resumes. The models favored white-associated names 85% of the time, female-associated names only 11% of the time, and never favored Black male-associated names over white male-associated names.

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